VR app helps designers understand problems of sight loss

A new smartphone app, Eyeware, designed to help you see through the eyes of someone with an eye condition, could help the design community better understand the challenges faced by those with a range of conditions, including cataracts and glaucoma.

The video below provides a flavour of how the app and a VR headset work in tandem as a user attempts to navigate Milton Keynes Railway Station.

The app serves as a reminder that for the design community a new generation of tools are allowing spaces and places to be walked-through and experienced from a range of perspectives, in some cases before they are even built.

The Eyeware app is now available from the Google Play and Apple App Store. Eyeware Cardboard headsets can be obtained from a variety of places including the Transport Systems Catapult by e-mailing eyeware@ts.catapult.org.uk.

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